Social Media Revisited

I wonder, will people someday start realizing that they didn't really want all that stuff they posted for the last few years in the public domain for all the world to see?

I was having a beer with a friend a few weeks back and we were talking about all the social outlets that are available to people today, both the more static versions like blogs and Facebook and the more dynamic like Twitter and Foursquare. His comment to me was that he doesn't have an account on Twitter or Facebook or anything else besides LinkedIn because he doesn't want to share all of his world with all of the world. He thinks that someday, people will look back at all the information that they have shared and they will regret sharing so much. They will either have issues that they need to confront of identity theft that are serious and require law enforcement attention. Or he said it might just be the something that could cause real embarrassment for a person or their family.

I know that there are already groups that exist that are trying to become you in the social world. They are linking to your friends, they are telling people that they know you and then before you know it, they are pretending to be you.

Smells like an nice opportunity for someone to help people ensure their identity.